This Month

• Tonga Death of Tevita Fifita of Minerva Reef fame and one of modern Tonga’s ‘greats’ 13 • France in the Pacific New stirrings in the ‘back waters’of the Marquesasand Wallis and Futuna 18 • Tanna Troubles in the New Hebridean 50uth...21 • Nuclear weapons New Zealanders protest against visits by US N-subs, while the US and Japan search for a Pacific dump for nuclear waste 21 • Western Samoa At last, the long-awaited ‘party politics’ show 23 • Cook Islands Opening of a conspiracy trial hangs on efforts to extradite an American millionaire 23 • New Zealand in the Pacific Twenty pages analys ing a complex and growing relationship 41 • Pacific War A Papuan carrier looks back on his wartime experiences while working with Australians 79 • Tuvalu A story of fish, and thinking behind Prime Minister Toalipi Lauti’s bold deal with an American businessman 83

Tevita Fifita ... hero

Yamak of Tanna ... ordeal at the hands of anti-Vanuaaku activists

Afterthoughts 39 Australia 5,7, 9, 10, 22, 84, 91 Banaba 5 Books 71 Cook Islands 23, 71 Fiji 5,6, 9, 10, 22, 30, 50 France 9, 18 French Polynesia 7,9, 10, 58 Gilbert Islands (Kiribati) 5,6, 9, 67 Guam io Hawaii 9 Irian Jaya 22, 28 Islands Press 37 Japan 10 Letters 5 Marquesas 18 Micronesia 10 Midway Island 9, 21 New Caledonia 7,9, 53, 68 New Hebrides 5,6, 9, 10, 21 New Zealand 5,7, 9, 10, 21, 22, 23, 30, 41-65 Norfolk Island 10, 28

Yesterday 79

Pacific Report 9 PNG 9, 10, 22, 26, 28, 30, 39, 53, 72, 79, 84 People 75 Pitcairn 26, 28 Political Currents 21 Ponape 10 Shipping Services 94 Solomon Islands 6, 10, 22, 55. 83

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Tahiti 7,9, 10, 58 Tonga 5, 10, 13, 28, 32 Tradewlnds 83 Tradewlnds Intelligence 87 Travel 67 Troplcallties 26 Tuvalu 5,6, 83, 84

Ttpi 10

United States 21, 23 Wake Island 9, 21 Wallis & Futuna 18 Western Samoa 10, 22, 23, 62 Yachts 91